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UNITED sTATEs raTNT orrion.N 7

JOSEPH K. SLATER AND SYLVANUS G. PRATT, OF BOSTON, .MASSACHUSETTS.`

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Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,754, dated September 20, 1844. i

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, JOSEPH K. SLATER and SYLvANUs Gr. PRATT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improvement on the improvement of horsehames patented by Nathan Post, of Madrid, in the State of New York, on or about the 15th day of June, A. D. 1844, and which the said Post denominates the gaft-hook and lever-purchase llames,"7 and that the following description and accompanying drawings taken in connection constitute a full and exact specification of the construction and operation of our invention.

Figure 1, of the said drawings represents a front view of a pair of the said haines as applied to a harness collar, z 7L being the hames and z' the collar. Fig. 2, is a side vie-w of the same and the collar.

Our improvement, simple as it may appear on first examination, is productive of very important results.

It consists in extending each of the bearers or purchase bars L a, which spring from the middle of each hame 71 downward as far as the lower end of the hame extends and uniting the said end of the bearer and end of the hame by an intervening connecting piece of metal c, or instead of connecting them in such manner, the bearer may be made of sufficient length and be bent at right angles and fastened at its end to the end of the haine. connected by straps or a strap d, having a buckle. The lower ends of bearers a a, are to be similarly connected by a strap f. By thus connecting the ends of the bearers and The lower ends of the haines are hames the strain of the gaft or purchase hook g of each haine is brought to bear in a proper manner upon the lower end of each haine so as to press it down upon the collar and prevent it from rising therefrom as it often does when otherwise made, in the manner heretofore practised, besides theconnectio-ns c, c prevent the bearers from being broken off by the horse, when putinto a stall or broughtnear a feeding trough, an accident which is constantly liable to occur when the lower ends of the bearers are not connected with those o-f the haines, by reason of the bearers catching upon the edge or side of the trough.

The haines of the said Nathan Post have been calculated for heavy draft, whereas ours is applicable to light draft.

For further information respecting the nature and principles of the invent-ion of the said Nathan Post reference is to be had to the specification which accompanies his Let ters Patent for the same.

Having thus explained our improvement we shall claim the same-that is to say:

Connecting the lower ends of the hames and bearers, substantially as set forth, and for the purposes as her-einb-efore described.

In testimony that the above is a correct specification of our improvement we have hereto set our signatures this twentieth dav of August A. D. 184:4.

JosEPH x. sLaTnn. sYLvANUs G. PRATT.

lVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, JOHN NOBLE. 

